DANIELLE'S P.O.V.The feelings that I experienced at the surprise dinner with Adrian were new; raw, and they were as terrifying as they were exciting. More than I cared to admit, these new feelings coursed through my body and surged through my being, every waking moment, in those days that led after the dinner. I could barely look at Adrian without my chest surging or without my heart beating as fast as a horse's gallop; it was frightening to feel and I feared, and dreaded, that moment when I would have to accept these feelings of mine for what they really were.The days following the surprise dinner rolled by faster than I hoped than they would and without much warning or alerting, the day of my truth finally arrived.That morning was like any other morning that I'd had in the house that I now shared with my husband. I woke up to the sunlight, in its full glory, shining its bright and luscious light; as usual, the morning sun light licked its way, mutely, through the closed cream col
DANIELLE'S P.O.V.Sometimes, when I would find myself in a discomfiting position, I would imagine what it felt like to be breathless; I wondered what it would feel like to be completely, utterly, breathless and for every single breath of air to leave one's body.Truthfully speaking, I had always pondered the idea and the concept of shock as it was a phenomenon that caused me great intrigue. It usually was a feeling of distress and disbelief that one would have when something; either bad or good; happened accidentally.My reaction at hearing, from the doctor, that I was actually pregnant was a sick feeling of shock."What?!" I asked, "Wait, what?!”I kept repeating the phrase into the phone as if I had never heard those words before in my life. I did not know why I said the words, and I did not even mean to say them but they kept coming regardless.I could call it an accident and I could also tag it a surprise but an unexpected pregnancy was not something that I planned for. I had to p
DANIELLE'S P.O.V.As I made my way from the doctor’s office back to the front desk; this time with me following the lead of another nurse as the one who had brought me to the doctor’s office earlier had left to do something important; I wrenched my hands due to the barrage of jittery nerves that coursed through my body. I was way beyond anxious, terrified, and frightened; there could not have been better words to describe the way that I was feeling at that moment.On reaching the front desk, I could barely even muster up a smile in greeting to the receptionist. I replied her cheerful farewell with a reluctant and depressing one of my own as I was unable to pretend that my day was anything but dreary. The lift from the clinic proper to the parking lot below it seemed like one of the longest journeys that I had ever had to take. The air in the elevator felt stifling and suffocating and I was on the verge of breaking down right there and coming undone completely. I could only be grateful
DANIELLE’S P.O.V.The air in the room stilled and the space suddenly started to seem smaller as I waited, with bated breath, for Adrian to say something as regards to the news that I had only just broken to him. I did not know what I had been expecting him to say or how I had expected for him to react, but I was definitely not expectant of the silence that he had decided to give as response to my revelation.Nearly half an hour had passed after I had told my husband about the results of the pregnancy tests that I had consulted and the only thing that he had done since I had revealed that information to him was to stare blankly at the living room wall ahead of him. I was tired of sitting in the quiet and waiting anxiously for him to give any other form of response and I desperately wished for him to quell the fear and nervousness that lingered in the depths of my mind and stirred in the pit of my stomach. When it was obvious to me that I would have to spend another half of an hour wait
DANIELLE’S POV“I don’t know, Danielle. I don’t know what is going through my head because I cannot even process anything at the moment.” Adrian said, running hand through his hair once more.“We need to talk about this, about what is going on.” I said.“I am not even sure that you are sure of what you claim is going on.” Adrian said.I was starting to get irritated by mu husband’s reaction and words and I could feel the anger lick its way slowly through my body.“Maybe if you had not cut e off so rudely, earlier, I would have been able to fully explain how sure I am about my pregnancy.” I said.“Okay. It is my fault for cutting you off, I am sorry for that. Can you complete your story now so that I can be clear about the level of surety that you have of your claimed pregnancy.” Adrian said.Although the fact that he kept using the word ‘claim’ and his voice had taken on a edge of sarcasm to it was getting on my nerves, I decided to play it off as the effects of the shock from hearing
DANIELLE’S P.O.V.The rest of the day passed by in a blur and I spent most of it in my bedroom; the one that I had been assigned before the accident with my father in-law, Alfred, had occurred, before Adrian and I had gotten much closer, and before I had started to share Adrian’s room with him due to the passionate activities that we frequently partook in. I spent the rest of the day in my very own bedroom, watching as the morning rolled into afternoon and afternoon into evening while I was deeply buried in my thoughts. By the time the night had rolled by, I was tired and exhausted of the anger that coursed through my veins as I replayed the day’s events over and over in my head.I could scarcely believe that Adrian could dare to speak to me in the manner that he had and my veins nearly popped from the livid thoughts that ran through my head. The only form of recourse that I experienced from remembering the things that he had said were the vengeful thoughts that soared through my mind
DANIELLE'S P.O.V."Shut up!" Layla shouted.I could not help but laugh hysterically at her exclamation of shock."You're not playing us, are you?" Sofia said, imploring me to speak the truth with her eyes wide open."I kid you not." I said with my shoulders still shaking from the fit of laughter that Layla had sent me into.At present, I was on a video call with all three of my best friends and I had just done them the honor of announcing the news of my pregnancy to them. Their immediate reaction was to stay staring at me with dumbfounded looks on their faces; that reaction alone had sent me into hysterics and Layla's dramatic exclamation had only succeeded in causing my chest to tighten and my stomach to squeeze with laughter."You had better not be joking, Dannie. If you are, I am definitely not going to let it slide. You know how vengeful I can be, right?" Janelle threatened.Then suddenly, without any warming, Janelle moved closer to the camera of her laptop with which she was pla
DANIELLE’S P.O.V.I had no idea how long I sat in my bed, my phone held loosely by my left ear with my left hand, and my eyes staring blankly at the screen of my laptop which sat in front of me. I could neither move nor speak, and I also could not fathom why I was having such an extreme reaction to hearing that familiar voice and confirming that I had accidentally picked up the phone call of the third one out of the three people that I wanted to avoid the most at that moment; the first and second people being both my husband and my father respectively.“Hello, Dannie?” I heard Chase ask in inquiry of whether I was still on the phone or not.I could not bring myself to reply him my mind started to race with the most ideal and quickest way that I could get myself out of the mess that my being careless had cost me.“Dannie, I know that you can hear me. I know that you are listening to me.” He said.His statement received no comments from me as I continued to keep my lips tightly pressed